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01Common swifts have been radar-tracked sleeping in slow ascending spirals at altitudes above 2,000 meters.
02A swift's legs are so reduced by evolution that landing on flat ground leaves it unable to take off again.
03Over a single lifetime, one swift may log roughly two million kilometres of continuous airborne travel.

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Predjama Castle

01Predjama Castle sits 123 metres up a sheer cliff, with the cave forming its rear wall and natural roof.
02Knight Erasmus of Lueg withstood a year-long siege in 1484 by using a hidden cave passage to receive food from the forest above.
03The castle's current form dates to 1570 and remains one of the largest cave castles in the world.

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01Halsted's colleagues at Johns Hopkins were never told he was a morphine addict for the last 34 years of his career.
02He began injecting cocaine in 1884 while experimenting with it as the first surgical anesthetic on human patients.
03William Welch, Halsted's closest friend and co-founder of Hopkins, recorded the secret in a private memo buried for decades.

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01Sophiatown was one of few areas where Black South Africans could own freehold property; that right was erased overnight.
02The removal began on 9 February 1955 at 4 a.m.; two thousand police oversaw the first convoy of trucks.
03The suburb was renamed 'Triomf' in 1960 and filled with white working-class housing; the name wasn't reverted until 2006.

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A column of Bulgarian Comitadjis captured during WWI in Thessaloniki .

01Komitadji cells operated under a strict internal code: betrayal to the Ottomans meant death by the band's own hand.
02Rival Greek, Bulgarian, and Serbian komitadji murdered each other over village loyalty oaths throughout the 1890s–1900s.
03The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization used komitadji terror to provoke Ottoman reprisals and radicalize peasants deliberately.

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01Xolo dogs were ritually killed and buried with their owners to serve as underworld guides.
02Aztec belief held that the dog must cross nine distinct underworld rivers with the deceased.
03The breed's genetic lineage traces back over 3,500 years without significant human modification.

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01A specialized organ behind each eye generates heat, warming the retina by up to 28°C above seawater.
02Warmer retinas process light signals faster, giving swordfish a crucial reaction-speed edge over cold-blooded prey.
03Swordfish can reach 60 mph, making the heated-eye system essential for tracking fast-moving targets in dim water.

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01Atwood co-founded Unotchit Inc. in 2004 to commercialize the LongPen, which transmits handwriting via tablet in real time.
02She has published over sixty books across poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism across six decades.
03Her novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' published in 1985, spent 52 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list after the 2016 U.S. election.

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01The $100 trillion Zimbabwean note, issued in January 2009, is now a collector's item sold for novelty.
02Life expectancy in Zimbabwe collapsed from 60 years in 1990 to 37 years by 2006 under Mugabe's rule.
03Mugabe ruled for 37 years before a military coup in November 2017 finally ended his presidency.

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